A UK-wide tour including our trademark Opera Evening show and annual Summer Opera, schools performances and outreach projects.
Our trademark Opera Evening Shows
With a different programme debuted during our Summer Tour each year, our Opera Evenings our 75-minutes of best-of hits, with music from Mozart, Handel, Stravinsky, or Britten, performed alongside Bernstein, Gershwin, or Tom Lehrer.
17 - 21 June 2025, Layer Marney Tower (Essex)
The festival also includes talks, chamber concerts, and showcases, all hosted at the beautiful Layer Marney Tower.
A dramatic, semi-staged retelling of Handel's Messiah with 8 singers, performed anywhere from intimate 70-seat halls, to incredible cathedrals.
Specially curated concerts in beautiful spaces. Enjoy the last of the summer warmth, clear sea air, idyllic country villages and pubs, and sensational seafood at our recommended restaurants.
March - May 2025
An annual run of intimate concerts, held at The Old Library in Colchester across March, April, and May.
After the success of our semi-staged winter Messiah, James Gilchrist (one of the leading evangelists in the world) will join a selection of the UK's finest singers and period specialist players to perform the earliest and most expressive of Bach's biblical Passion's.
From chamber performances to solo recitals, reduced Opera Evenings, or even fully revived shows, our singers and players are available for any occasion on any scale.
For performances outside the UK, we travel by train.
Featuring music from:
Bernstein - Candide
Gershwin - Crazy for You
Handel - Giulio Cesare
Lortzing - Undine
Puccini - La Bohème; Madama Butterfly
Rossini - Il barbiere di Siviglia; L'italiana in Algeri
Sondheim - Sweeney Todd
Stravinsky - The Rake's Progress
Verdi - Falstaff
Viardot - Cendrillon
Tchaikovsky - The Queen of Spades
Featuring music from:
Bellini - I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Bernstein - West Side Story
Handel - Acis and Galatea
Monteverdi - L'incoronazione di Poppea
Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro
Nicolai - The Merry Wives of Windsor
Puccini - Gianni Schicchi
Tchaikovsky - Eugene Onegin
Rodgers and Hammerstein - Oklahoma
Rossini - Cenerentola; Il barbiere di Siviglia
Verdi - Don Carlo
Weill - Lady in the Dark
Featuring music from:
Beethoven - Fidelio
Donizetti - Rigoletto
Handel - Rinaldo
Korngold - Die Tote Stadt
Lehàr - The Merry Widow
Mozart - Don Giovanni; Le Nozze di Figaro
Rodgers and Hammerstein - Oklahoma
Rossini - Otello
Smetana - The Bartered Bride
Sondheim - Follies
Strauss - Die Fledermaus
Verdi - Falstaff
As well as Brahms' Hungarian Dance No. 4, and songs by Benjamin Britten and Tom Lehrer.
Featuring music from:
Bernstein - Candide; West Side Story
Britten - Billy Budd
Donizetti - Don Pasquale; L'Elisir d'Amore
Handel - Semele
Tchaikovsky - Eugene Onegin
Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro
Porter - Kiss me Kate
Puccini - La Bohème
Verdi - Falstaff
Rodgers and Hammerstein - Carousel
Rossini - Il barbiere di Siviglia
Verdi - Rigoletto
Premiere 2025
Musical Director Orlando Jopling
Director Dominic Dromgoole
Eugene Onegin will tour alongside a performance of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (play), with Mendelssohn's incidental music.
Premiere 2026
Musical Director Orlando Jopling
Director tbc
The Marriage of Figaro will tour alongside a revival of Guido Martin Brandis's 2023 production, The Elixir of Love
Premiere 2027
Musical Director Orlando Jopling
Director tbc
La Bohème will tour alongside a revival of P Burton-Morgan's 2022 production, Così fan Tutte
We offer chamber performances and recitals year-round, as well as a reduced version of our Opera Evening programme with 3 singers and piano, with soprano and piano, or with voice and cello.
An annual 2-3 month tour of 40+ UK and European venues. 20 performances of our flagship opera, a revival of one of our hit productions, and 25 performances of our unique Opera Evening (with a new programme created each year).
2025 Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin
2026 Mozart The Marriage of Figaro
2027 Puccini La Bohème
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